CA-like error propagation in fuzzy CA

✍ Scribed by Paola Flocchini; Frédéric Geurts; Nicola Santoro

• Book ID: 104304559
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 607 KB
• Volume: 23
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0167-8191
• DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8191(97)00077-x

✦ Synopsis

We describe and analyze the surprising evolution of an overflow error which has occurred during the simulation of a class of continuous complex systems called 'fuzzy cellular automata'. This error not only perturbs the global behavior of the system but it generates its own interesting dynamics; in fact, it propagates over the original evolution as a binary cellular automaton in a structured, fractal-like way, regardless of the underlying system evolution. The analysis of the errors behavior suggests interesting observations about the difficulty of detecting errors and verifying results using computer simulations. 0 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.